AFAIK it is already taken but only postponed due to one voice asking
for something that makes it temporarily hanging but within weeks or month it will go through.

It does not look promising at all. All the music we had access to
will be gone. Would even artists be allowed to do covers anymore?
I mean them want money if you sing others copyrighted stuff.

That is how it is regulated in law here in Sweden. If you play in public
then you are supposed to pay to the Iffy ot what name they have.
Then they pay the artists collectively.

Unless you sing only your own copyrighted stuff? Or things that are
70 years old or more. Old Folk music whom nobody owns anymore?_________________I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

This bill will be as effective as airline security..where many citizens have simply had to stop flying (you have a metal post in your leg, etc.....). Is anyone really stupid enough to think this bill will be effectively employed?

Hey, but wait...
Latest news is that financial advisers have ascertained that the States Legislature and Tax Department revenue would gain greater advantage for the economy and US citizens, and an easier enforcement regime, if the bill were amended to go after Spammers and Virus-makers and spreaders, whose use of the Internet bandwidth is estimated to be costing the global economy in excess of 35 Trillion dollars, (as well as being responsible for heavy burdens on businesses at all levels, including Government departments)...which would just about stabilise the economy for the coming 2012 Presidential Election, rather than put the Country into a state of division and outrage, at the backlash of current proposals.
Proposals to encourage shutting down both servers and advertising revenue streams derived from Spammer activity, and granting funds to existing Spam and Antivirus firms, are also being hurriedly put together....individuals found to have Spam or Viruses on their PCs would be offered a $10 fix service throughout a vast array of stores, with Micr$oft heading up a free update if the Operating system was damaged during infection of the PC. Apple say they are unaffected, but expect to gain some market share, and Linux users fell about laughing........

"Labeling their approach a "market-based system" to protect consumers and property owners, the authors of HR 3261 would require advertisers, credit card companies and other payment processors to stop providing ads or payment services to any site that a copyright or trademark holder claimed was "dedicated to the theft of U.S. property." No court would need to be involved unless the operator of the site filed a counter-notice asserting that it didn't fit the bill's definition of a dedicated infringer.

That definition is so broad, it could snare all sorts of cloud-based services, said Markham Erickson, executive director of the NetCoalition tech advocacy group. The problem starts with the bill's focus on Web "sites," which as a technical matter can be a single page within a domain. An eBay listing could be considered a "site," as could a Facebook timeline, a Flickr page or a Dropbox folder.

Making matters worse, the bill broadens the notion of what it means to be "dedicated to the theft of U.S. property." In addition to sites that are primarily designed or marketed for infringing uses, the bill's definition includes sites whose operators "avoid confirming a high probability" that they will be used to infringe or who had at any previous time promoted infringements.

According to Erickson, the only way for ad networks and payment processors to respond to a notification about a supposedly offending site would be to block service to the entire domain. Hence, "you can shut down YouTube, you can shut down internet commerce sites, you can shut down hosting sites" for infringements on just a fraction of their pages, Erickson said."

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